Explaining debugging strategies to end-user programmers

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 127-134

  Subrahmaniyan, Neeraja ^a   Kissinger, Cory ^a   Rector, Kyle ^a   Inman, Derek ^a   Kaplan, Jared ^a   Beckwith, Laura ^a   Burnett, Margaret ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL INFORMATIONS; DEBUGGERS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; END-USER PROGRAMMINGS; INFORMATION GAPS; LITTLE RESEARCHES;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 47949101576     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2007.21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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